This site contains the biblical research work of
James Millard Gibbs, primarily in the New Testament, published and
unpublished. It has been developed over many years of teaching in England
(Lichfield Theological College and The Queen's College, Birmingham, the latter
as a recognized lecturer of Birmingham University) and India (The United Theological
College, Bangalore), and some of it has been left in the form shared with my
students, to whom I owe much. You are welcome to use it, preferably
acknowledged.

The three most prominent areas
are chiastic structuring, the relating of NT writings to Jewish lectionary
usage, and the pervasive wise/powerful/well-born paradigm for human beings
that underlies and structures much of the NT witness to Jesus. It is
this third area that is of the greatest significance.

I am putting these materials
on the Web for two reasons: firstly, to make them more readily available,
and secondly, because their cogency, I believe, depends on primary data
rather than on trawling through masses of more recent secondary literature.

In time I intend to present
materials on individual writings such as Matthew, Mark, Luke-Acts,
John, the Johannine epistles, the letters of Paul (Romans, 1 and 2
Corinthians, Galatians, Philemon), Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians,
Jude, 2 Peter and Hebrews. There will also be studies on such subjects as
chiastic structuring, Pauline authorship, and Jewish lectionary usage in
the New Testament, with special reference to Mark, Romans, 1 Corinthians
and Galatians.

Starred items (*) are
pastoral, but based on research.

My e-mail address is
JMandDAGibbs@aol.com. Comments, questions,
criticisms and suggestions will be welcome.